From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933291Ab0E0WUk (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2010 18:20:40 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:24376 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933221Ab0E0WUi (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2010 18:20:38 -0400 Message-ID: <4BFEF01E.20004@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 12:20:14 -1000 From: Zachary Amsden User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100430 Fedora/3.0.4-3.fc13 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bernhard Schmidt CC: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Clock jumps References: <20100525062100.GP22163@redhat.com> <4BFD5616.6070302@cora.nwra.com> <4D7E210A-4694-4B6E-B721-6024CE96ABC0@suse.de> <4BFEE9F3.8040200@redhat.com> <4BFEEE3A.1010403@birkenwald.de> In-Reply-To: <4BFEEE3A.1010403@birkenwald.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/27/2010 12:12 PM, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: > On 27.05.2010 23:53, Zachary Amsden wrote: > > Hello Zachary, > >> I have server side fixes for this kvm-clock which seem to give me a >> stable clock on this machine, but for true SMP stability, you will need >> Glauber's guest side changes to kvmclock as well. It is impossible to >> guarantee strictly monotonic clocksource across multiple CPUs when >> frequency is dynamically changing (and also because of the C1E idle >> problems). > > Is all this relevant only when the host is on TSC? Because I have seen > these jumps when the host was on HPET and the guests were using > kvm-clock. > > Anyway, can you send me both patches? I'd like to try it, but I have > completely lost track where the up-to-date patches are. There's more than two, there's quite a bit, I'll send it to the list soon. Zach